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A free and legal online platform will soon be available to all fans of retro games. Just register on Piepacker, invite your friends, and start playing. No downloads, no subscriptions, completely hassle-free: open it on Chrome, and you are good to go. The multiplayer architecture is enhanced by a video chat function that also allows […]
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Team Innocent Sends Gamers on Space Police Adventure on NEC PC-FX – December 23rd, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
December 23rd, 2018 
Carl Williams The NEC PC-FX is one of many consoles that never left Japan. Therefore it has more than a few exclusive titles North American gamers probably never heard of. One such title is Team Innocent. This is a 3rd person, fixed view, adventure title that features pre-rendered backgrounds with character sprites laid over them. This style will […]
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Classic Fighter Barbarian Receives Female Fighter in Fan Update
August 19th, 2018 Carl Williams It is an interesting conundrum that the gaming community faces right now. We have companies becoming exponentially more interested in protecting their older IP’s from fans accessing them, but no effort made to make them officially available to those same fans. Thankfully, right now, Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior is in limbo, USA gamers probably recognize […]
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Unreleased Sega Saturn Game Sold on eBay Auction Service (Updated with New Information)
December 11th, 2017 Carl Williams It is not all that often that we get news that a Sega Saturn prototype has surfaced. Armed, an unreleased game by Point of View who was developing it for Interplay, is a 2D side scrolling action game. Everything seems to feature pre-rendered graphics (you either love the style or hate it), some parts are […]
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Armed, Unreleased Sega Saturn Game, is Unearthed
October 5th, 2017 Neil Reive Discovering long lost unreleased games from yesteryear is always fun, but can sometimes come with mixed emotions. The discovery of a working prototype of Armed, which was cancelled mid way through its development, is one of those instances when it comes with mixed emotions.
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Top 5 Fighting Gaming Crossovers That Are Not Super Smash Bros
January 5th, 2017 Carl Williams Think you know all of the fighting game crossovers that are not Super Smash Bros? Think again.
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Fallout Brings Windows Gamers Alternative Historical Post-Nuclear War – Today in Retro Gaming – September 30th, 1997
September 28th, 2016 Carl Williams War is something that is eternal in gaming. Pretty much every electronic thing that has been released that plays games has had a war game of some sort. Sure, that war game may have been with colorful graphics and bouncy sound effects but there was a war going on. Fallout by Interplay, for Windows computers, certainly […]
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Blackthorne Shows Super Nintendo’s Dark Side – August 10th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
August 10th, 2016 Carl Williams Blackthorne by Interplay was one of those Super Nintendo releases that previously would have never happened. When Nintendo launched the whole “Play it Loud” campaign they said it was a change of pace for the company. They would be partially shedding their “family friendly” image. This allowed third party companies to release more mature titles […]
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Revenge of the License: Five NES Games That Missed the Point
July 24th, 2016 Michael Crisman I love licensed NES games. I love the sound they make as I yank them out of my system and hurl them against the wall. The relentless plundering through the morass in search of something worth playing and finding the occasional surprise is always delightful, and why I keep coming back to this column over […]
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Icewind Dale Takes R.A. Salvatore’s Story in New Direction – June 29th 2000 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Icewind Dale is an exemplary example of how to port a rich book to a computer game. The world in the book is a detailed, living, entity. How do you port that to a video game? Simple. You don’t. That is what Black Isle Studios did with Icewind Dale when they ported it to PC’s […]
